Zelda Popkin (1898–1983)
Auteur de A Death of Innocence
A propos de l'auteur
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Séries
Œuvres de Zelda Popkin
Open every door 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1898-07-05
- Date de décès
- 1983-05-25
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Études
- Columbia University
New York University School of Law - Professions
- Journalist
public relations manager
mystery novelist
novelist
autobiographer - Courte biographie
- Zelda Popkin, née Feinberg, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Columbia University and NYU School of Law. At age 17, she became the first woman general assignment reporter for the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. In 1919, she married Louis Popkin and had two children. The couple worked together in a small public relations firm until his death in 1943. Popkin became a mystery writer and created Mary Carner, one of the first professional female private eyes in American fiction. Mary Carner was quite liberated for her day -- she frequently solved her cases while her husband stayed home to babysit their daughter. Popkin's Small Victory, for which she received the National Jewish Book Award in 1947, was one of the earliest U.S. novels to focus on the Holocaust. She also wrote Quiet Street (1951), the first novel in English about the 1948 struggle to establish the State of Israel. Her autobiography, Open Every Door (1956), recounted her childhood in small towns in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Membres
- 151
- Popularité
- #137,935
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 32
- Langues
- 2
The author draws her characters vividly and I found the story absorbing. The writing style is pleasant and the book reads easily. In many ways, Millie, the book's central focus, was the least interesting character and she would be hard sell as a main character published today. Millie falls in love young and is completely absorbed by her husband and children, so even though she is a rebel to her mother's generation she seems oddly old-fashioned.… (plus d'informations)